16 days till Rock Climbing Round1
45 days till the Color Run
#sweatyselfie
It's been a crazy couple weeks. After loosing Kendra I have to say I was super bummed. Kendra made me feel encouraged and supported, something I genuinely worry about loosing with a new trainer...
So over the holiday weekend and the following week I was Kendra-less, Trainer-less... but I had plenty to keep me busy. My mother's (Boekweg) family reunion was on the 2nd, and it was a blast. I got to feel some serious love from family, people saying how good I looked. :D it felt really great, I finally feel like I'm at a place where other people can tell with my weight loss. At first it was just me, but it's nice to see how much things have changed.
I can feel how my body loves being lighter... I fit into shirts better, my pants fall off my shrinking butt. My calfs are awesome rocking solid! I've lost the equivalent of a 2 year old child. Crazy to think how much weight I've been carrying around for so long. I have less back pain and less blurry vision issues. It's great! It really is! Even when the scale doesn't always show it :)
My sister Melisa suggested that I stop weighing myself so often, She might be on to something.
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So working out without a trainer for a week was tricky, nobody to be accountable to is a hard thing for me. - I really do need that. Until I can really be better at being accountable to myself I need that other person. Speaking of that person... His name is Tyler; my new Trainer... Yup a dude!
I've had one session with Tyler, and he's intense. He pushes me and he keeps me moving, no rest for me I guess. I'm going to stick it out though. I think it's going to be good for me to switch it up and try a new approach to this journey. He seems more focused on strength training with lots of variation to keep my muscles surprised. So no heavy cardio yet, I think I'm okay with that... not training for WDW anymore so I don't mind.
I thought for sure that he'd have me do a fit test, but he just stepped into things... I kinda appreciate it really, didn't give me a chance to feel like I hadn't made progress between his fit test and the one I did with Kendra only a few weeks ago. I do expect we'll do a weigh-in sometime soon though since I haven't done one of those in about a month. I'm nervous about that because my home scale hasn't really moved since my 30 lbs marker. Keeping my fingers crossed to continue to rock this thing.
It sure has been a eventful couple weeks. Family Reunion, and a week of training without Kendra. Followed by a surprise mass lay off at my work. More than half of the designers at my work were laid off and most of my good friends. Now were a team of 5 designers where we had 12. I'm freaking out internally, without these awesome peeps the work load of 12 falls on the 5 of us. Trying not to be pessimistic but it's hard; this is the 4th time my company has "re-structured" over time it starts to feel less and less like they care, this time with the lay offs, even more so.
We'll I still have a job, I suppose I can't help but be grateful, and I am. It's just a tough situation all around. Crap just got real people - This adulting thing sucks!
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So, My lovely Jeep Merlin has been with me 5 years now... I own him outright and that's great. Unfortunately he's got this apparently common issue where the plastic piece inside the windows which holds the glass pane up brakes... so I've magivered them to stay up. sticks, pipes and bungie cords. My fake fix it skills make me happy.
(picture of my doors insides) Opening that sucker up to re-situate my magiver-ing to fix the gradual creeping slip that's happened in these windows. No more whistling or slipping, at least for now! Yay!
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So, was looking for my sandals because it's summer. can't seem to find them. When looking I found some other adorable shoes that I hadn't worn much. So I slipped those puppies on and headed to work. Yeah, now I remember why I only wore them a couple times...
With great style comes great blisters. Curse my stupid shaped feet. Well now I know.
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So, Here's some make up sweatyselfies:
(see this awesome family reunion tee shirt that I designed and am wearing... yeah it's a 2X and it fits! Yay!)
We'll things change, and so must we. Keeping on keeping on... I'm learning a lot about myself during this whole thing. I'm really grateful and glad that I made that decision to start this thing. Working on remembering that on the hard days.
Love you all, Thanks as always for your support! <3
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